Can I read 1914 : fight the good fight ; Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War on EtoBox?

1914 : fight the good fight ; Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War by Mallinson, Allan, author is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is 1914 : fight the good fight ; Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War about?

xxii, 503 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm "No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening', wrote Churchill. 'The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed ... In fact the War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of fate.' One of Britain's foremost military historians has written a significant new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. Intensely researched and convincingly argued, Allan Mallinson explores and explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer, its almost calamitous experience of the first twenty days' fighting in Flanders, and the point at which the British Expeditionary Force - the 'Old Contemptibles"--Took up the pick and the

Who reads 1914 : fight the good fight ; Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War?

Author

Mallinson, Allan, author

Publisher

London : Bantam Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781446463505

Category

history

Subjects

History, Western, Humanities

Rating

4.06 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14